KDnuggets^TM News 09:n03, Feb 10, 2009

1. Poll Results: Researchers are planning to attend KDD-09 in Paris
2. KDnuggets Re-design - new features
3. Record number of papers submitted to KDD-09
4. 2009 KDD Innovation and Service Awards: Nominations due May 1, 2009
5. Needed: Brief Data Mining Examples & Case Studies
6. Top items from KDnuggets News 09:n02, Jan 20
7. Data Miners (including KDnuggets) on Twitter

8. Open Source Text Analytics

9. Free Webcast: How to dramatically improve your model using decile optimization

10. Data Mining: Levels I, II & III [ April, Las Vegas | June, Washington-DC ]
11. Use the economic downturn to study data mining/customer intelligence in Belgium

12. Santa Monica, CA: Quantitative Research Engineer/Scientist at Cars.com
13. Portsmouth, NH: Business Systems Analyst (req 00573) at Liberty Mutual
14. San Jose, CA: Summer Internships at the Center for Advanced Research at PricewaterhouseCoopers
15. Orlando, FL: Research Scientist / Statistician at MEDai, Inc.
16. Orlando, FL: Research Programmer at MEDai, Inc.
17. Sunnyvale, CA: Scientist, Data Mining / Machine Learning - Ph.D. Required at Yahoo! Labs
18. San Jose, CA: Healthcare Data Mining Specialist at The PwC Center for Advanced Research (CAR)
19. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Senior Predictive Analyst at Booking.com
20. Danvers, MA: Senior Intelligence Analyst - Special Investigation Unit at Liberty Mutual
21. Boston, MA: Manager, Special Projects - Claims Analytics & Reporting (req 5194) at Liberty Mutual
22. Cambridge, MA: Visiting MTS - Sensor Data Analysis at MERL

23. New Book: Practical Database Programming with Visual Basic.NET
24. Deep Throat Meets Data Mining
25. Use Access 2007 to Get Started in Data Mining
26. Data Mining Questions? Some Back-of-the-Envelope Answers
27. Microsoft Searches for Group Advantage
28. What Data Crunchers Did for Obama
29. Useful Book: Practical Text Mining with Perl
30. SIGEVOlution Volume 3, Issue 2, Now Available!
31. ACM Trans. on KDD: Call for Papers and March 2009 Issue
32. New Book: Data Mining for Design and Marketing
33. Social Networks and Data Mining

34. Singapore startup turns online opinions into marketing and business insights
35. FDNY to Use Analytics That Combine Several Agency Databases
36. Neuralitic pulls in $3M for data service analytics
37. iPhone, Android Developers Flock to Flurry for Analytics
38. When IBM Beats Facebook And Twitter: Discover Relevant People Within Your Network
39. WPP Invests $25 Million In Online Audience Researcher Omniture
40. Fayyad to be on board of ChoiceStream, Behavioral targeting firm
41. KXEN Signs Record Number of New Customers in Fourth Quarter 2008
42. IBM, Microsoft and Oracle top Gartner's business intelligence platform rankings
43. SAS Achieves Record Revenue: $2.26 Billion in 2008
44. Sentimental Favorite: Data Mining on Twitter
45. Data mining promises to dig up new drugs

46. Salford Systems' Data Mining Conference, San Diego, CA, Aug 23-25, 2009
47. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining - Registration and Program Now Available!

48. Data Mining Cup 2009 - call for international speakers, due Feb 28
    Social Computing (SocialCom-09), due Mar 1
    Cross-media Information Access and Mining IJCAI-2009 workshop, due Mar 13
    Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval, due Mar 27
    Knowledge Discovery and Decision Systems in Biomedicine, due Apr 1
    ECML PKDD 2009, due Apr 3
    ILP, MLG, SRL 2009, due Apr 3
    IEEE ICDM Workshop proposals, due Apr 13
    Surveillance Technologies and Early Warning Systems: Data Mining Applications for Risk Detection, due Apr 15 (chapter proposals)
    KDIR: International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, due Apr 21
    ICDM: IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, due Jun 26
    
49. Call for book proposals for a series in Web Data Mining

From interview with MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe at the World Economic Forum in Davos

Michael Arrington: I know you are literally running to a session. What’s your session on?

Chris DeWolfe (CEO of MySpace): It’s on data mining.

Michael Arrington: Data mining? That sounds really boring

Chris DeWolfe: No that’s actually the future of advertising.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/31/myspace-ceo-talks-myspace-revenue-music-mobile-and-his-murphy-bed/

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